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If you want to know the future look of MSNBC, take a look at its past. The network's selling points when it launched in 1996 was the power of NBC News on cable and an up-and-coming anchor named Brian Williams. Nearly 20 years later, Williams will be at the forefront of an effort to make the channel a destination when news happens in daytime. NBC News on-air correspondents, a less frequent presence on MSNBC in recent years as the channel added more politically progressive talking heads, will play a larger role again. Stunning photos, celebrity homes: Get the free weekly Hot Property newsletter >> NBC News and MSNBC Chairman Andy Lack cleared a path for the strategic shift...

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If you want to know the future look of MSNBC, take a look at its past.
The network's selling points when it launched in 1996 was the power of NBC News on cable and an up-and-coming anchor named Brian Williams.
Nearly 20 years later, Williams will be...

As TV viewers find ever more ways to consume information, CNN has discovered it's tough for a cable news network to survive on news alone. So in 2012 CNN President Jeff Zucker enlisted Amy Entelis, a news executive who developed some of the top talent...

Brian Williams and MSNBC have a lot invested in second chances.
Williams was officially demoted by NBC News on Thursday for false statements he has made on and off the air regarding his coverage in the field. He will lose his anchor chair on "NBC...

Fox News and CNN plan to use an average of recent polls to pick the candidates for the first two Republican presidential debates, with the top 10 making the cut for the main event.
TV producers and Republican Party officials agree that having a dozen...

Aaron Hernandez should probably pace himself.
A little more than a month into his lifetime prison sentence without parole, the former New England Patriots tight end reportedly has already gotten himself into trouble.
Hernandez allegedly was the...

CNN national political reporter Peter Hamby is joining Snapchat Inc. as head of news.
Hamby, who joined CNN nearly a decade ago, becomes the most notable hire for Snapchat’s months-old media-partnerships operation. The Venice start-up’s app introduced...

After Bill Weir arrived at CNN from ABC’s "Nightline" in late 2013, he went right on the air to fill in as a prime-time host interviewing guests in a studio.
Recently looking back on it, he realized his mind was often somewhere else.
“There...

Jon Stewart plans to step aside as host of Comedy Central's "The Daily Show" later this year, ending a 16-year run that changed the way Americans view the news.
Stewart, 52, made the announcement at the end of his show Tuesday in New York....

Journalist Stuart Loory, who covered the White House in the 1960s and '70s for the Los Angeles Times and helped build CNN, died Friday at his home in Brooklyn, N.Y. He was 82.
The cause of death was lung cancer, said his son Joshua.
Loory, who joined...

The television news business is trying hard to catch up with rapidly changing technology.
Americans are getting more of their news from their Twitter feeds, friends' Facebook posts and websites such as Reddit. There are live bloggers who chronicle events...

A change is going to come to MSNBC in 2015.
“Technology is continuing to drive unprecedented changes across the media landscape — and we all should be taking a hard, honest look at how we need to evolve along with it,” Phil Griffin, president of the...

CNN, Cartoon Network and other Turner Broadcasting channels have returned to Dish Network's satellite television service as part of a short-term accord between the two fighting media companies.
After a monthlong blackout, Dish and Turner said Friday that...

Dish Network is prepared to permanently unplug a pillar of cable television — CNN, the pioneering 24-hour news network whose fortunes have faded.
The satellite giant's 14 million subscribers haven't been able to watch several Turner Broadcasting...

CNN, Cartoon Network and several other Turner cable channels were removed from satellite TV giant Dish Network's systems late Monday after the two companies could not agree on a new distribution contract.
Dish said the action was taken because it no...

Joan Rivers' death continues to make ripples weeks later, with a doctor accused of impropriety during the comic's ill-fated outpatient surgery denying those allegations and the future of "Fashion Police" firmed up after a period of uncertainty....

Former White House press secretary Jay Carney will join CNN as a political commentator, the network announced Wednesday.
Carney will make his first appearance on CNN on Wednesday night in conjunction with President Obama's prime time address outlining...

Television newscaster Bruce Morton, who came into the nation's living rooms for more than four decades with reports on the Vietnam War, space missions, Watergate, civil rights and political races, died Friday at his home in Washington. He was 83.
The...

Major news stories -- including the fatal shooting of an unarmed African-American teenager in Missouri by a white police officer, and escalating tensions in the Middle East -- helped boost ratings for cable news channels during August.
Fox News was...

It's official: Piers Morgan has left CNN in search of "pastures new."
The British-born TV host tweeted Tuesday morning that he has officially left the cable network after turning down CNN boss Jeff Zucker's offer to present 40 news specials...

Grappling with ratings doldrums and increased competition, Turner Broadcasting plans to cut several hundred workers as part of an overhaul of its operations.
On Tuesday, the Atlanta cable TV programmer notified employees that it was offering buyouts to...